At 20:33 18/09/2007, Matthew Brown wrote:
On 9/18/07, Ian Tresman <ian2(a)knowledge.co.uk>
wrote:
I recall Director of NASA's Goddard Space
Center,
Columbia astronomer and Dartmouth earth
scientist, Robert Jastrow, criticizing part of
Carl Sagan's assessment of Worlds in Collision,
and concluded that "Here Velikovsky was the
better astronomer" [The New York Times (December 2, 1979)
I suspect this was intended as a monumental insult to Sagan rather
than any praise to Velikovsky.
"Velikovsky was the better astronomer" sure reads like praise to me.
I suppose that when Velikovsky earned an Honorary Degree of Doctor of
Arts and Science from the University of Lethbridge in 1974, this was
meant as a monumental insult to everyone at the University.
George Herbert wrote:
Yeah, unfortunately unless you know the history here
(Sagan was
monumentally unpopular in his field, as popular as he was to the
public), it's easy to be confused.
But surely not as unpopular as Velikovsky.
Regards,
Ian Tresman
www.plasma-universe.com